All the Little Raindrops

In the morning, Evan tells Noelle that Aria found another similar case. They catch a flight to Las Vegas to meet Tallulah Marsh, a sex worker, and confirm that her experience was like theirs. She was imprisoned along with a sex worker called Iris, but Iris was shot during their escape. Tallulah says that the gifts she got with her food reminded her of the way her grandfather saw her: as confident and capable.

The police did not believe Tallulah, just as they doubted Lars. Again, Evan points out the difference between his and Noelle’s experience and that of the other captives, people whose “stories were easily dismissed” (277); his and Noelle’s abduction was high profile. They try to discern a pattern but cannot. Evan insists that Noelle is the only reason why her father would part with her mother’s ring, so something must have happened before she went missing to make him sell it.

Grim wakes up and thinks about how he and Cedro are “throwaways” to those who kidnapped them. He gets his bread and water, finding a prayer card beneath his napkin and feeling the familiar bumps on it. Cedro asks whose picture was in the locket he stole, and Grim says that it was his daughter, Penelope, who died five years ago.